In addition to the Seoul East Detention Center, group infections have continued in nursing hospitals. The government has come up with a countermeasure, but some point out that it is too late.
Reporter Jeong Gu-hee will explain why such a point is coming out.
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There were 62 confirmed cases from yesterday (the 2nd) to a senior hospital in Gwangju.
In the preliminary examination, 7 workers, including nursing care workers, were confirmed, and after a full examination, 55 additional people were confirmed.
At the nursing hospital in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, 48 people were also tested positive.
The hospital was quarantined in a cohort with negative patients.
[보건소 관계자 : 잠복기로 음성이 나오신 분들이 있을 수 있기 때문에 침상의 거리두기라든지 이런 거를 출장 나가서 점검하고 있습니다.]
As group infections in nursing hospitals followed and side effects of cohort quarantine continued to occur, the government belatedly took measures.
[손영래/중앙사고수습본부 전략기획반장 : (요양병원 경우) 확진자나 비확진자 둘 중 한 집단은 모두 외부로 전원시키고, 동질적인 집단만 집단격리를 실시하겠습니다. 전국의 요양병원 종사자에 대해서는 매주 PCR 검사를 실시합니다.]
However, workers in nursing hospitals in the metropolitan area are already being tested on a weekly basis.
In the case of the Incheon nursing hospital, where group infection was newly confirmed, workers were tested in full on the 24th and 25th of last month, and all of them were negative.
Then, a week later, on the 30th and 31st, I was tested again, and 48 people were infected, including 17 employees, 28 residents, and 3 others.
Although it was tested every week and visited hospitalized patients was completely restricted, it was not enough to prevent the spread of the corona.